plummet

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

plummets

1.
(archaic)(archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
2.
(archaic)Hence, any weight.
3.
(archaic)A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
4.
A violent or dramatic fall.
5.
(figuratively)A decline; a fall; a drop.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

plummets

V_ing/Gerund

plummeting

V_ed/pp

plummettingplummeted

1.
(idiomatic, intransitive)To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.

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Đồng nghĩa

dive drop fall tobogganto drop swiftly dive, drop, fall, toboggan

Trái nghĩa

ascend rise rocket soar skyrocketto drop swiftly ascend, rise, rocket, soar, skyrocket

Cùng gốc / liên quan

plummeterplummetlessunplummetableunplummetedplumbplumb line

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English plommet (ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (lead, sounding lead), from Latin plumbum (lead). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun.